Other and nothing in Platonic apophatics: towards discussions about the dialogue «Parmenides»

The article is devoted to the problem of the correlation of apophatic issues in the dialogues "Sophist" and "Parmenides". The article substantiates the position that the doctrine of non-being, presented in the Sophist, is one of the foundations of the first two hypotheses of Parmenides. An important point in the Sophist is the distinction between the other (ἕτερον) and the nature of the other (θατέρου φύσιν), which serves as a prerequisite for the dialectic of the one and many in the second hypothesis. It is suggested that the other six hypotheses are determined by the understanding of the other in the Sophist